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BJD is surging ahead in 18 of the 21 Lok Sabha seats in Odisha, BJP in two and Congress in one seat trends of which were available till 1300 hrs.
Veteran Congress leader and former chief minister Giridhar Gamang, who was earlier leading, is now trailing behind BJD candidate and sitting MLA Jhina Hikaka in Koraput (ST) constituency by 1,406 votes.
In Nabarangpur, Congress nominee Pradeep Kumar Majhi was leading over Balabhadra Majhi of BJD by 2,848 votes.
Union Minister Srikant Jena is trailing in Balasore. He is in the third position there as Rabindra Kumar Jena of BJD is leading over his nearest BJP rival Pratap Chandra Sarangi by 2,234 votes.
Jual Oram, who was initially ahead in Sundargarh, was now trailing behind BJD candidate and former hockey captain Dilip Kumar Tirkey who was leading by 281 votes. Congress veteran and former chief minister Hemanand Biswal was now in third place.
BJP is leading in Kalahandi where its candidate Pradipta Kumar Naik was ahead of his BJD rival Arka Keshari Deo by 2350 votes.
BJP candidate Subhas Chouhan is leading in Bargarh over his nearest BJD rival P K Singh by 1647 votes.
In Puri, BJD's Pinaki Mishra is leading by 8254 votes over his nearest Congress nominee Sucharita Mohanty.
BJD's Ladu Kishore Swain was leading over his nearest Congress rival Sriloknath Rath by 25,821 votes in Aska.
In Berhampur sitting BJD MP Sidhant Mohapatra was leading over his nearest Congress rival Chandrasekhar Sahu by 8803 votes.
In Bhubaneswar sitting BJD MP Prasanna Kuamar Patsani was ahead of BJP's Prithviraj Harichandan by 9,551 votes, while BJD MP Kalikesh Narayan Singhdeo was leading over BJP's Sangeeta Singhdeo in Balangir by 6542 votes.
BJD sitting MP Tathagat Satpathy was leading over BJP's Rudra Narayan Pani by 9292 votes in Dhenkanal and Bhartruhari Mahtab was leading by 13,279 votes over Aparajita Mohanty of Congress in Cuttack.
In Kandhamal, Hemendra Chandra Singh of BJD was ahead of Harihar Karan of Congress by 25,592 votes, while his party colleague Sakuntala Laguri was ahead of Anant Nayak of BJP in Keonjhar by 24,962 votes.
Ramachandra Hansda of BJD was leading over Nepole Raghu Murmu of BJP by 9518 votes in Mayurbhanj, while Nagendra Pradhan of BJD was ahead of BJP's Suresh Pujari in Sambalpur by 10,364 votes.
In Bhadrak, BJD leader and former Union minister Arjun Charan Sethi was ahead of Congress' Sangram Keshari Jena by 2938 votes, while in Jagatsinghpur BJD's Kulamani Samal was leading over Congress nominee Bibhu Prasad Tarai by over 11,000 votes and in Jajpur BJD's Rita Tarai was ahead over BJP nominee Amiyakanta Mallick by 1538 votes.
In Kendrapara, BJD's Baijayant Panda was ahead of his Congress rival Dharanidhar Nayak by 4012 votes.
